On Saturday night I attended MoveOn's "Leave No Voter Behind" meeting in Wayne, Pa. Several dozen people gathered at the Central Baptist Church, a few hundred yards away from "the veranda of the venerable Wayne Hotel" where the Republican ladies lunch.
(The Main Line ladies who live in furnished souls
are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds)*
The photo in the link above accompanies Katharine Q. Seeleye's New York Times article "In Battle for Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Suburbs Probably Hold the Key":
"If you win the Philly suburbs, you win the state," said G. Terry Madonna, a political scientist at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster. "The Republicans can't give up that many votes in the suburbs and still make them up somewhere else."
That's the key to Pennsylvania's 21 electoral votes. That's why I signed up to volunteer with MoveOn's LNVB effort. Here's their description of this effort, taken from their tell-a-friend recruiting e-mail:
I've been looking for ways I personally can help defeat George W. Bush, and I think I've found a good one: MoveOn PAC is launching a new campaign called Leave No Voter Behind. Their goal is to turn out 440,000 additional votes for Kerry from 10,000 targeted neighborhoods in key "battleground" states like ours.
MoveOn is about to hold a series of Leave No Voter Behind Community Kickoff Meetings across the state. You can sign up for the one I'm going to or find meetings in other areas at:
If you can't make the meeting, you can still get involved in the campaign. You can sign-up to help by clicking here:
I hope you’ll come.
The next meeting in the Philadelphia area is tonight at 7. Follow the link above for details.
If you're not from around here, but you do live in a swing state — Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee, Washington, West Virginia or Wisconsin — follow the link anyway to find out about a meeting scheduled for your area.
Or just follow this link and find out what else you might do during the two months remaining before the election.
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* that's from this e.e. cummings poem
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